Word: programing
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Afro responded with justified anger. The old plan was quickly scrapped, and a new "second draft" of the program was drawn up and released. The contents of both drafts have been well-publicized. The basic difference between the two is that the first proposal was completely inadequate, a travesty of the idea of an academic department, while the second was simply unsatisfactory. Under the first plan one could major in Afro-American Studeis only in theory; in reality, one would major in Government, or History, or Physics for that matter, and minor in Afro-American Studies. The second program, drawn...
...underpinning of Afro's stance is the conclusion of Section II of the Rosovsky Report--the section dealing with Afro-American Studies at Harvard. (Needless to say, we consider African Studies to be an integral component of any Afro-American Studies program, and we exclude it from discussion only because our competence in the field is limited.) Concluding this chapter is a list of 17 recommendations concerned with the establishment and continuance of Afro-American Studies. These recommendations were accepted by the Faculty on February 11. The action of the standing Faculty Committee--their disregard for the terms...
...first recommendation of Section II's conclusion is to establish a "standing Faculty Committee on Afro-American Studies and budgeting of funds to implement the program-development activities outlined." The second recommendation authorizes the standing Faculty Committee to "... consult with the President concerning the appointment, possibly as a University Professor, of a distinguished scholar deeply concerned with Afro-American Studies and identified with the black American experience and community. The person appointed... should be invited to assume the Chairmanship of the Afro-American Studies Committee...
...standing Faculty Committee was to be officially authorized to select a chairman for the Afro-American Studies program. According to an explicit agreement between the Rosovsky Committee, the representatives of Afro, and the standing Faculty Committee-an agreement made before February 11--a Search Committee was to be formed with the power to select a chairman of the Afro American Studies program...
...Faculty Committee did not consider themselves sufficiently competent in the field of Afro-American Studies to decide on the selection of a chairman of that field. Another reason for the creation of the Search Committee was to give students a direct input to the decision-making processes of the program from the very beginning...